Typhoon Matmo (2025)

Typhoon Matmo, known in the Philippines as Typhoon Paolo, was a strong and costly tropical cyclone that unleashed widespread and devastating flooding in northern and north central Vietnam in early October 2025. The storm also affected the Philippines, Macau, and southern China. Matmo is the twenty-first named storm and the eighth typhoon of the 2025 Pacific typhoon season, Matmo originated from an area of convection north-northeast of Yap which became a tropical depression on October 1. As Matmo is inside the Philippine Area of Responsibility (PAR), it was assigned the local name Paolo by the Philippine Atmospheric, Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA). Under favorable conditions, Matmo gradually intensified into a Category 1-equivalent typhoon before the system made landfall over Dinapigue, Isabela on October 3. Matmo later weakened as it crossed through the Cordillera Central. It reemerged through the West Philippine Sea, where it further intensified into a Category 2-typhoon as it moved westwards. Matmo later made two separate landfalls in Southern China. It later crossed through the Gulf of Tonkin before it made another landfall in Fangchenggang in Guangxi Province on October 6. Matmo was last noted in the vicinity of Yunnan on October 7. Matmo generated extensive flooding and landslides across the Philippines, Vietnam and Thailand resulting in at least 39 deaths.